When art moves into our Paris offices: “Texture”, a pop-up contemporary art exhibition that has a feel of its own!

Pop-up exhibition on the theme of texture

RentingART has assisted us in putting on a unique exhibition of contemporary art on the theme of texture in our Paris offices, to introduce art to our employees and visitors.

They aren’t exactly new to this kind of thing. These specialists in corporate art have already offered us other pop-up exhibitions within our offices, notably on the theme “Expressions ”, consisting of photographs by Lenny Kravitz and Kimiko Yoshida, as well as sculptures by Youn Cho.

This month, we are hosting an exhibition on the theme “Texture”: an exhibition where the artistic worlds of Nathalie Rothkoff and Bernard Reyboz collide. Rothkoff fuses sculpture and painting, creating a tapestry of colourful overlays. Reyboz explores materials and textures. Through the magic of the creations on display, this exhibition immerses us in a unique, captivating artistic dialogue.

What’s next? A new six-month exhibition on a different theme, to allow audiences to fully immerse themselves in the worlds of other renowned and emerging artists!

Nathalie Rothkoff: straddling painting and sculpture

She was born in 1954 in Paris and graduated from the Paris Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1978. Nathalie Rothkoff loves concealment, secrecy, the imperceptible, depth and light. Her work can be perceived as being midway between sculpture and painting. She uses the matrix form, the grid, and with the pure pigments she uses, she invades the surface of the canvas, wood, or paper in a repetitive, tireless, almost obstinate gesture, she then defines a weft, a weaving of verticals, colourful overlays, which will create matter and light, thickness and colour. As well as obscuring and concealing, the artist’s gesture exposes and reveals.

“By moving, the viewer changes their perception of the painting, the light changes, the pattern can disappear, the colour changes,” she explained. Rothkoff’s has a dual relationship with what she creates: distance and proximity. The same is true for the viewer: they need distance, to look at the work from afar, but they also require proximity to approach the canvas and to touch it.

The series of paintings by Bernard Reyboz

Bernard Reyboz’s work forces us to understand the world differently. As often very simple forms, Bernard Reyboz’s “objects” constantly remind us of how the material comes from the land and its evocative power. The artist is intuitive when he draws his inspiration from childhood memories but also scientific when he studies the natural elements in an almost obsessive way. He proposes a re-creation of the world and the living. He gives his characters a culture, an era, a space. Each period of his work carries with it the history of the previous one, installing a kind of imaginary family line between each object. Bernard Reyboz’ work is a family, one full of humour and poetry.

Seth’s series of sculptures

Seth was born in Paris in 1972, and he began expressing himself on the walls of his city in the mid-1990s. During his artistic explorations, Seth developed a recognisable painting style by often working on the subject of childhood. On walls that he approaches as a blank page, Seth draws on the imaginary, individual and collective – local gods, myths, tales. The child becomes a spokesman, a messenger of his questioning. He challenges his image of innocence and places his character in a difficult social, political and geographical context.